Not because you can't build them. Because KC keeps you in a frame of one to five homes at a time — a line of credit that caps out, suppliers who price you like you're small, and a market that makes you prove yourself one house a year. Inside that frame, scale is impossible by design.
Nobody quotes a real discount on a 16-home year. Banks cap small developers at a house or three at a time. And three scattered new houses on a disinvested block wait months for a brave first buyer — while whole blocks sell. None of that is a skill problem. It's a size problem, and size is fixable without merging anything.
Your signature is the fuel the other four seats run on.
Not your lane? Every seat is a live page — the whole chain is being seated at once, on purpose.
True quantities from your plan set, included with book entry — usually inside a week. Standalone $500, credited in full against your first material order. Use it with any supplier; we want you to check our number against theirs.
Comp and census-tract data that has moved appraised values by tens of thousands one block apart. We map it before you buy the lot.
A dedicated team working volume pricing around what the group actually needs. Printed sheet, capped markup you can audit, every member on it — including Together.Homes' own projects. Real movement starts around 100 homes.
Buildable, KC-tested plans that fit 25–40′ urban lots, plus high-performance packages usually only production builders can spec affordably.
Panels, trusses and residential mass timber from the local facility the book pays for — members first, at founding pricing, with the framing stage cut from weeks to days.
“People come into a neighborhood and see three houses — and nobody wants to be the first one. Whole blocks don't have that problem.”What KC builders keep telling us — and the reason the Network builds blocks, not one-offs
The first 71 homes are already confirmed — you're not being asked to go first. The state moved first: Missouri has already awarded $2.8M in NPA tax credits against them, and its clock runs to 12/31/2028. This tally updates as homes confirm.
Then: members charter the KC Housing Production Cooperative — the whole chain in one member body, by class, licensing the Together.Homes platform.
Because volume pricing without volume is a bluff, and we don't open with one. I've run the supplier math myself — real rebates and true cost savings start around 100 homes. The identified pipeline is already 150+. Until then you still get the takeoffs, the playbook, the coordination — the services that don't need volume to be real.
Membership is free — no dues, no minimums. The Network is funded by the suppliers who want access to the group's volume, not by the members in it. The only priced service is a standalone takeoff ($500) if you want the work without putting homes in the book — and even that credits in full against your first material order.
No private capital, no — and anyone who tells you otherwise, walk away. What exists today is the state's $2.8M award with its deadline, the pricing work a dedicated team is building around the book, and the book itself. The credit facility is a goal we are openly raising toward, not a thing we have. The book is what makes it raisable.
Three distinct jobs, held apart on purpose. A council of members — seated by class: a developer, a builder, a lot owner, a design professional, an operator — governs. Together.Homes staffs the day-to-day services. And Daniel Edwards holds one job: build the book and bring the capital to it — the aggregator, not your foreman.
The book gets stronger with your name in it.